Number One Fifth Avenue — Restaurant in San Diego

The bar during the week is fair enough. I just moved to San Diego about a month and half ago from Cleveland, Ohio. Again, the bar is fair enough during the week. Bartenders are friendly and welcoming. The decor, is definitely divey and could use some updating. The carpet, has been there as long as the bar has been in existence (maybe that's a stretch... But) do time for some updating. Now, let's move on to the weekend crowd... The place is over packed (probably violating every fire code imaginable) and the people from every outside suburb and LA neighborhood and landed at Bar One. It's a very unruly crowd and... The music is awful. It's disgusting actually. It's the worst, crappy, obsene genre and it's lousy. The most disgraceful hip hop, with strong vulgarity and blasting! If I were the owner of the little Italian restaurant across the street... I would be complaining every day about the noise and inappropriate music that's being played. Guests that are trying to enjoy a nice evening out are bomblasted with that disrespectful music, blasting from the bar. I'm very disappointed in the music scene in general in San Diego, but people need to realize... Music is life and I get it that all have different tastes, but honestly music captures the soul and when the lyrics are using "the N word" and just gross lyrics every other sentence, it's disturbing. Just because you like your weird playlist, that's fine I'm your personal settings, but in public it needs to be for all people trying to enjoy an...

Yesterday, we visited Number One Bar on 5th and were initially having a great time—until an unfortunate and completely unacceptable incident ruined the night.

My brother, who was visiting from out of town, lit a joint inside the bar, unaware that it wasn’t allowed here (where he’s from, it’s legal and common to smoke in bars). While I fully acknowledge that lighting up indoors was against the rules, the response from the female security guard was entirely out of line.

Rather than addressing the situation with words or a warning, she immediately smacked my brother in the face while trying to grab the joint. This not only burned his lip and beard, but she also extinguished the cherry on his sweater—completely uncalled for and excessive. There was absolutely no need for physical contact. A simple, “Hey, you can’t smoke in here,” would have been enough.

No one is saying my brother was right to light up—but there’s a big difference between enforcing rules and crossing the line into physical aggression. This kind of behavior by staff is dangerous and unprofessional, and it reflects very poorly on the establishment.

I hope management seriously addresses this incident and considers better training for conflict de-escalation. A great night quickly turned into a very...

This place is harvesting all the data off of your license barcode, they scan it really quickly and stores it who knows where and how long.

RESPONSE: "Keeping your customers safe" requires that you collect and store information about people and "blacklist" people you don't approve of. By definition if you are using software to do this you are sharing with a 3rd party that your guests did not consent to. If it was about drinking age, you would just check the ID.

I believe under CA law, you must have a notice at the point of data collection about the purposes/usage of the data and how you handle it. You have no...